The last people to die in Mary King’s Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700’s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh’s buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex army, spots a possible paramilitary link. It is August in Edinburgh. The festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in the thronging city streets. Special Branch are interested, however, Rebus finds himself seconded to an elite police unit with the mission of smashing whatever terrorists cell may exist. But the victim turns out to be a gangster’s son, and the gangster wants revenge on his own terms.

Read by James MacPherson.

3 hours 20 mins